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Ballmer On a Microsoft App Store: Sure, Why Not? [Microsoft]

Tucked away in Steve Ballmer's Webkit lip service from Friday was this gem about the potential for an Apple-esque Microsoft App Store. "I actually will agree that there's some good work, particularly at Facebook and also with the iPhone, where both of those companies have made it easier for ...

Internet Companies Embrace Human Rights Guidelines

Leading Internet companies long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China -- including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so. ...

Corporate Governance and the Bailout::

Did I miss it, or is nobody even paying lip service to the idea that only the Board of Directors can make decisions for (banking) corporations of the kind the banks... ...

Angie's lip service

Angelina Jolie has a cutting-edge way of raising kids - the world-famous beauty recently took son Maddox, 7, shopping for knives. "My mom took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12," Jolie says in the new issue of W magazine. "And I've... ...

Aubrey Booted from Danity Kane??

Sarah Vowell Slams Republicans For Being Frenemies With New York City [Clips]

NPR darling and essayist Sarah Vowell was on the Daily Show last night and the Oklahoma-born Montana State grad had a bone to pick with Republicans who have been ragging on New York City. Palin et. al. pay lip service to New York's bravery in 9/11 and then call us "elite" and unpatrioti...